 | Rufus Blanchard - 1898 - 716 pages
...manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by,...against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet of water; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft-logs. Nothwithstanding... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 556 pages
...my pole to prevent our being swept down the stream; but the rapidity of the current threw the raft with so much violence against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet of water, and I was like to have drowned. This wind and sleet seem warm when I remember that ; and... | |
 | Worthington Chauncey Ford - 1900 - 380 pages
...that we expected every Moment our Raft to sink, and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting Pole to try to stop the Raft, that the Ice might pass by...fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the Raft Logs." They found that they could not cross the river, and quitted their raft to land on an island,... | |
 | Louis Albert Banks - 1902 - 420 pages
...manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink and ourselves perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by,...against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet of water; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. " Notwithstanding... | |
 | Eugene Parsons - 1903 - 192 pages
...sink, and ourselves to perish. '• I put out my setting pole to try to stop the raft, that the , i ice might pass by: when the rapidity of the stream...fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get the raft to either shore; but were obliged,... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 588 pages
...manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting pole to try to stop the raft that the ice might pass by,...against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet of water, but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 540 pages
...of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet of water, but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts we could not get to either shore but were obliged as we... | |
 | Charles Alexander McMurry - 1904 - 288 pages
...manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by,...against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet of water ; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft-logs. Notwithstanding... | |
 | Edward Channing - 1904 - 166 pages
...that we expected every moment our raft to sink, and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so 10 much violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet water." In this dangerous situation... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Fred Newton Scott - 1905 - 182 pages
...that we expected every Moment our Raft to sink, and ourselves to perish. I put-out my setting Pole to try to stop the Raft, that the Ice might pass by...fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the Raft Logs. Notwithstanding all our Efforts we could not get the Raft to either Shore ; but were obliged,... | |
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